"Barter" for Solo Guitar

Here's another one of my new tunes, written for the Negative Spaces album. This, like many of the pieces written for my next album, came to me when I was away from my guitar. I kept singing the melodies or grooves in my head until I felt like they were in the most "pure" state of melody, and then I would pick up the guitar and sort it all out. "Barter" just happened to be a very simple, G minor groove, something much simpler than I probably would have written with an instrument in my hands. In a way, that's where the title comes from. Trading any sort of attempt at writing something clever--usually based on idiomatic licks for the guitar--for something memorable.